Soon all Ford employees will have the ability to drive to work using zero emissions. The automaker announced a company-wide plan to incorporate 200 charging stations at more than 50 of its offices, manufacturing plants and development facilities in Canada and the U.S.
Highlighted by its growing customer base of electric vehicles and a best U.S. Sales month of over 8,000 electric-capable vehicles in August, the plan adds to the already 1,700 charging stations at Ford dealers and offices throughout North America to bring to total to 1,900. Currently, there are more than 20,000 public and private charging stations throughout the continent.
Ford employees will be able to charge the all-electric Focus Electric, as well as Ford’s two plug-in hybrids – the Fusion Energi and C-MAX Energi – at the charge stations. The service will initially be free to employees for the first four hours. Ford estimates it will cost the company about 50 cents to fully charge a vehicle, saving employees up to $2 in gasoline each day.
To date, Ford customers have logged an impressive 48 million all-electric kilometres, saving more than 1.2 million kilograms of CO2 since introducing electric technology to its vehicle lineup.